Final Cut Pro X Guru: Online OfflIne Workflows

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2/1/2017

Optimize your editing workflow by learning how and when to work with proxies—low resolution copies of your files. Final Cut X is built to intelligently create and handle proxy files, so you can toggle between working with original files and compressed files with ease. In this course, Jeff Greenberg shares why you might want to embrace a proxy workflow by demonstrating the ways it streamlines and improves common post-production steps. Whether your footage is H.264 or ProRes, from a DSLR or from an iPhone, Jeff provides instructions that help you generate manageable media. He starts with a comparison of video resolutions and how it pertains to workflows. Then, he covers how to create proxies and customize your compression presets. He concludes by showing how to switch between online and offline workflows during editing, and how to make a final export. Organizing and archiving are also explored.

Topics include:

Comparing workflows: online vs. offline

Working with originals, proxies, and optimized clips

Generating proxies during or after import

Generating optimized footage

Determining if a clip or library has a proxy

Compressing footage

Using a preset to generate proxies

Placing custom proxies in the library

Switching between offline and online

Exporting the right quality for clients

Moving media in and out of libraries

Skill Level Intermediate

49m 30s

Duration

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- Are you working with H.264 footage and findingFinal Cut Pro could be just a little bit more responsive?Are you working with 4K, maybe 4K H.264 footage?Proxy workflows can sit back and really change your life,and make the experience of editing so much easier.My name's Jeff Greenberg, and we're going to diginto these proxy and optimized workflows.We're going to take a look at the terminology and historyof online/offline workflows.We're going to actually walk through the basics,learn some key codec facts.

We're going to build proxies, and optimize media,during, or after import.We're going to use Compressorfor some advanced proxy generation.We're going to see the nuances in editing from proxy material,and we're going to talk aboutsome best practices for archiving.Of course, your mileage may vary.Please, any time you change a workflow,test everything from start to end.We take no responsibility if it somehowmesses up your passion project.With those sort of caveats in mind,let's go ahead and get startedwith online/offline workflows,and see how they can make your editing experiencethat much more enjoyable.